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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root

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